Josef fichtner



UNITED STATES JOSEF EIGHTNEE, on MILWAUKEE, WIScoNsIN, ASsIGNonoE ONE-HALE y PATENT OFFICE.

TO GOTTLIEB PATEK, OF SAME PLAGE.

HAMMoCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,234, dated April 24, 1883.

i Y Application filed March 19,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be Ait known that I, JosEE FICHTNEE, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain" new and useful Improvements in Hammocks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, which Will enable others skilled inthe art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to hammocks; and it consists, essentially, of a netted body of double or triple cords, whereby greater strength is secured, the same being suspended from the sides (as it is tied) by" small continuous cords i looped alternately to the web and suspendingrings, near which they are plaited to prevent snarling and twisting, together with supporting-cords passing through the meshes at each edge and tied to the rings at each end.

In the accompanying drawings like letters refer to similar parts throughout, and in the same Figure l is a plan view of my improved hammock. Fig. 2 is a like view, on an enlarged scale, of one of the suspending-rings B, with'the plaited portion of the suspending-cords; and Fig. 3 is a view, also on an enlarged scale, ot' a portion of the netted body A.

A represents the netting forming the central portion or body of the hammock. It is made of compound cords (usually double or triple) tied with the ordinary hammock-knot. Beginning with one corner of the netting A,

a single series of meshes is tied and produced to the required length for the body of the hammock. 'lhese meshes are then temporarily strung and hung upon a hook, and a second series is tied to the one first formed, and the process continued by tying one seriesupon another until a netting of the required width is produced. Each of the side series of meshes is then strung temporarily upon a cord and connected with the rings B B by the suspending-cords a ct, which are first tied to the rings and then passed continuously back and forth between the netting and rings, to each of which they are alternately looped, g until all of the meshes of each series are connected with the suspending-rings B B, When the remai ning ends of the cords a t aretied thereto. In this way the unsightly knots produced by the ordinary method of suspending hammocks by tying each of the separate suspending-cords to the rings and netting is avoided, and greater strength is at the same time secured. W hen hung, as herein described, from the sides, the cords forming the meshes of the netting A will emerge from the sides of the knots, and thus give the meshes a tendency to spread, as shown in Fig. 3.

By using a double or triple cord the netting A is made much stronger and handsomer than it can be made by the machines now in use, where a single cord onlycan be tied.,

When different colors are employed to produce stripes they will cross the netting transversely to the direction in which it is tied; but when the netting is hung from the sides, as herein described, the stripes Willcross it in the direction of the length of the hammock. The pursing or supporting cords C C are then passed through the outer rows of meshes of nettingA and tied to rings B B. Small cords b b (or a number of small cords) are next tied into the rings B B at one side of thev suspending-cords a a, through which they are woven back and forth a number of times, and

then tied to the rings at the other side of cords a a. The basket-work D thus produced near the rings prevents the twisting or tangling ot' the small suspending-cords a a, and at the same time adds to the beauty of the hammock.` A Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a hammock, the netting A, made of compound cords tied with the usual hammockknot and suspended by cords a a transversely to the direction in which it is tied, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a hammock, the combination of the compound cord netting A, suspended by the continuous cords a a transversely to the direction in which it is tied, the cords a a, looped alternately With thenetting A and rings B B, suspending-rings B B, and plaited or basket- IOO work ends D D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a hammoek,the plaited or basket-work ends D D, formed by passing cords b b back 5 and forth through the small suspending-cords a a, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony thatlelaim the foregoing as my own I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses. JOSEF FICHTNER.

Witnesses: Y

CHAs. L. Goss, G. PATEK. 

